How to Honor Your Local Police Department

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Police officers can always benefit from some encouragement from members of the community. They spend each day doing a great job guarding our lives and property, often at risk to themselves. Take time to let them know how much you appreciate their efforts.

Write a letter of commendation. Send it to the chief of police. Write about your general appreciation of policemen and their hard work. Write about a specific incident where you observed service "above and beyond the call of duty".

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If you see "service workers" eating in the same restaurant as you, talk to the cashier. It is usually much easier than you think to get the total of their check. Pay it. Include a good tip. Request to remain anonymous. You will find the cashier is happy to help you. Afterwards, tell no one. Your satisfaction is to do a good deed done well. If you tell or brag about it, you lose all of your good karma!

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wikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. To create this article, 21 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. This article has also been viewed 36,346 times.